After South Africa and Indonesia, Vietnam has now joined the Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP): With a total sum of 15.5 billion dollars over three to five years, the Asian country is to speed up the coal phase-out, expand renewables, initiate reforms in the energy system and reduce carbon emissions. That is according to a […]
A great deal of hope for international climate finance is placed in special drawing rights – but Germany and presumably other euro countries will not pass on their special drawing rights at the International Monetary Fund to poorer countries. The German Bundesbank (Federal Bank) and the German Federal Ministry of Finance fundamentally oppose such a […]
The term sounds academic and abstract, but it actually describes the web of life on our planet: For nearly two weeks, biodiversity will be the topic of the UN conference COP15 in Montreal. The threat to this web of life is as dangerous as the climate crisis – and closely related to it: Without a […]
To achieve its climate targets, the German government wants to use the controversial technologies of carbon capture and storage (CCU/CCS) sooner and on a larger scale than expected. As early as 2030, the use, capture and storage of carbon dioxide will have to be used “on a megaton scale“, especially from industry, according to the […]
We could hardly believe it ourselves: But just in time for Advent Climate.Table has some positive news: The EU has finally agreed in the trilogue to include shipping in emissions trading, as Lukas Scheid writes; IEA chief Fatih Birol, in an interview with Alexandra Endres, not only praises how the Germans are coping with the […]
The island nation of Vanuatu recently formally submitted a request to the other UN states to ask the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague for a legal assessment of climate change responsibilities. The country wants an advisory opinion on what obligations all states have in the climate crisis and how states can be […]
Every year, just before Christmas, the UN Climate Change Conference causes frustration and disappointment for many people because climate protection is moving far too slowly or in the wrong direction. The Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) is now countering this with an Advent calendar: Behind 24 doors, it will deliver […]
Mr. Steiner, you pointed out a sensitive issue at COP27, but it was hardly debated: The enormous debt of many developing countries, which limits their responses to the climate crisis. How bad is the situation?The debt situation in many countries has worsened dramatically. It started because of the consequences of the Covid crisis. The rising […]
Loss and damage from climate change have increased sharply. What was known for a long time was ignored by official climate policy for almost as long. Especially recently, however, awareness of the problem has increased enormously: record heat in India and Pakistan, floods in Nigeria, the drought in the Horn of Africa, the flood disaster […]
With a surprise proposal on the loss and damage (L&D) debate, the EU forced the hand of all other countries on the last official day of COP27 – and established itself as an unexpected new climate superpower. The European push isolated the US and opened the door to a new alliance between the most vulnerable […]